Sustainability Leadership Capstone

Course Description

Designed for a select group of second-year MBA students, the Sustainability Leadership Capstone (formerly the Sustainability Immersion) challenges participants to integrate the entire MBA experience through a sustainability lens. By getting out of the classroom and into real-world engagements with depth and extended reflection, students are immersed in strategies for how to use business as an engine for global social and environmental change.

Kevin Seals (MBA ’12)

"The Sustainability Leadership Capstone was the ideal course with which to finish off the MBA. The real-world projects are the perfect bridge from MBA to post-MBA professional life."

Kellan Dickens (MBA ’12)

"The course challenged me to not only think deeply about important global issues (poverty, equality, environmental) but to actually have a hand in solving them...Our class had a real, measurable, valuable impact on our local community (Durham), our state (Eastern North Carolina) and the world (Kenya & Ethiopia). How can you beat that?"

Nimit Arora (MBA ’12)

"It was an excellent course and one of the best things that I have done in business school."

Applying classroom knowledge to real-world business

"UNC Kenan-Flagler provided me with an experience that was beyond my expectation. I had the opportunity to work with companies that ranged from local to multinational, which gave me a broader, more practical perspective about sustainability.

Real-world business projects provided a platform to apply the business knowledge I gained in the classroom and helped me to understand more about the business tools that can be used to address sustainability challenges. I don’t think I could have found such experiences at any other program."